Joyless Street

(1925)

61 minutes.

Drama / Silent

Directed by G. W. Pabst

Cast: Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen and Werner Krauss

Country: Germany

Based on the novel by Hugo Bettauer, this silent classic of Weimar cinema stars Asta Nielsen and marks Greta Garbo’s screen debut.  Two beautiful young women from upstanding yet destitute bourgeois families must sell themselves into prostitution lest they starve and freeze to death.